About

Dolores Greyeyes Sand

As a first-language speaker of Plains Cree (nêhiyawêwin), translator Dolores Greyeyes Sand has devoted her career to teaching and promoting Cree language and cultural literacy at every opportunity, proudly following the path laid by her late mother, Dr Freda Ahenakew CM, SOM.

Books by Dolores Greyeyes Sand

We Belong to the Drum / mistikwaskihk kitipêyimikonaw

by (author) Sandra Lamouche
illustrated by Azby Whitecalf
translated by Dolores Greyeyes Sand

I Hope / nipakosêyimon

by (author) Monique Gray Smith
illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard
translated by Dolores Greyeyes Sand

My Heart Fills With Happiness / sâkaskinêw nitêh miywêyihtamowin ohci

by (author) Monique Gray Smith
illustrated by Julie Flett
translated by Mary Cardinal Collins
edited by Cree Literacy Network
read by Heather Gould & Dolores Greyeyes Sand

We Sang You Home / kikî-kîwê-nikamôstamâtinân

by (author) Richard Van Camp
illustrated by Julie Flett
translated by Mary Cardinal Collins
edited by Cree Literacy Network
read by Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

by (author) Richard Van Camp
illustrated by Julie Flett
translated by Mary Cardinal Collins & Cree Literacy Network
read by Dolores Greyeyes Sand

You Hold Me Up / ê-ohpiniyan

by (author) Monique Gray Smith
illustrated by Danielle Daniel
translated by Mary Cardinal Collins
edited by Cree Literacy Network
read by Heather Gould & Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Kiss by Kiss / ocêhtowina

A Counting Book for Families

by (author) Richard Van Camp
translated by Mary Cardinal Collins
read by Dolores Greyeyes Sand
edited by Cree Literacy Network

Welcome Song for Baby / Ni Nikamon ‘Tawâw Nipepîmis’

by (author) Richard Van Camp
translated by Mary Cardinal Collins
edited by Cree Literacy Network
read by Christian Down & Dolores Greyeyes Sand